P P COS VIIDESVIII, Wreath on curule chair, RIC 11 and pl. 117, citing and illustrating a spec. from Lanz 94, 1999, 377; rarity R2 indicates that the authors knew of at least one more specimen.

TR P COS VIIDESVIII P P, Altar, RIC 44 and pl. 118, citing and illustrating a spec. in Oxford, and citing a second spec. in Cederlind 126, 2002, 110. This is your coin, apparently the third known (prob. not identical with Cederlind's), from the same obv. die as the illustrated Oxford coin, but a different rev. die.

As to the reason for PONT only, Domitian presumably waited until he was elected Pontifex Maximus by the appropriate popular assembly, which will have met only a month or so after his accession. The Acts of the Arval Brethren record that such assemblies to elect the emperor Pontifex Maximus were still meeting in the later first cent. AD.

When it rains it pours! I've been offered or seen for sale more "PONT" denarii in the last several months than at any other time. It makes me wonder if some rareDomitiancollection is not being dispersed. lol